Business Development Manager
Overview
Placement Type:
Temporary
Compensation:
£48.56 per hour
Start Date:
08.04.2025
We are looking for a Business Development Manager to work with our client
The Global Business Development team partners closely with product teams like Signals, Business Messaging, and Retail Media to validate early-stage product ideas. Unlike traditional BD roles, this team doesn’t manage accounts or carry revenue targets. Instead, we focus on short- to long-term workstreams (2 to 24 months) that help shape product direction through hands-on partner collaboration.
A typical day involves syncing with product teams, analyzing pilot feedback, and engaging with select partners to test new features or concepts. The role is highly cross-functional and strategic—working across product, engineering, and legal to refine go-to-market plans and surface early insights that influence product-market fit.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- You will identify and build new strategic frameworks of partnership ecosystems.
- You will recruit and work with partners within the ecosystems to integrate with products.
- You will close strategic deals with ads and commerce partners to drive revenue growth.
- You will demonstrate expertise in complex legal and business issues, developing creative solutions that benefit both parties.
- You will execute across various products and collaborate with internal stakeholders to drive decision-making and define go-to-market strategies.
- This role also involves representing the client in executive-level meetings with partner companies.
Qualifications
- The ideal candidate will have 8+ years of experience in product partnerships, product business development, or a related field within an internet or technology startup environment.
- They should possess expertise in structuring and negotiating complex partnership agreements, as well as experience collaborating with product teams to develop new product partnerships and ecosystem strategies.
- They should be skilled in data analysis, able to derive actionable insights, and effectively present findings to senior leadership through clear and concise presentations.
- They should be comfortable working through ambiguity and early product lifecycle stages
- Identify, evaluate, negotiate, and close key deals with an ecosystem of ads and commerce partners that help drive revenue growth in core business
- Demonstrate fluency in the most complex legal and business issues in contracts and develop creative win-win solutions with our partners
- Be agile and execute across a broad range of products including mobile, video, advertising, big data, platforms, commerce and growth
- Analyze markets and synthesize recommendations into actionable partnerships plans
- Lead cross-functional internal alignment to drive decision making in the deal process
- Collaborate with a broad range of internal constituents to help define go-to-market strategy and drive sign-off from internal leadership
- Represent the client in meetings with executives from our partner companies
Top 3 must-have HARD skills:
● BD experience
● Product partnership experience
● Eco system development
Good to have skills:
- Launched Products and partnerships before – or led them at their own capacity
- Can work with ambiguity
Client Description
Our Client is the largest social media company in the world. They have substantial B2B and B2C advertising and media platforms, as well as a nonprofit initiative. With the mission of bringing people together, they now boast over 2 billion users, and are rapidly developing as they influence the world around us.
Aquent is dedicated to improving inclusivity & is proudly an equal opportunities employer. We encourage applications from under-represented groups & are committed to providing support to applicants with disabilities. We aim to provide reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, to those with a medical condition, disability or neurodivergence.